Add 'P' flag to the diagnostic line to indicate whether any per-cpu rtpcp's lazy_timer is pending. this helps diagnose stalls where rcu-task callbacks are queued but the kthread stay sleep because the lazy_timer has not yet fired and no grace period has started.
The output is as follows: [ 31.319540][ T77] call_rcu_tasks() has failed boot-time tests. [ 31.320205][ T77] rcu_tasks: RTGS_WAIT_CBS(11) since 7518 g:4 i:0 kCuUP l:150000 Signed-off-by: Zqiang <[email protected]> --- kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h index 6720dc25cd39..a146d1d98c22 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h @@ -723,6 +723,7 @@ static void show_rcu_tasks_generic_gp_kthread(struct rcu_tasks *rtp, char *s) bool havecbs = false; bool haveurgent = false; bool haveurgentcbs = false; + bool havependtimer = false; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { struct rcu_tasks_percpu *rtpcp = per_cpu_ptr(rtp->rtpcpu, cpu); @@ -733,10 +734,12 @@ static void show_rcu_tasks_generic_gp_kthread(struct rcu_tasks *rtp, char *s) haveurgent = true; if (!data_race(rcu_segcblist_empty(&rtpcp->cblist)) && data_race(rtpcp->urgent_gp)) haveurgentcbs = true; - if (havecbs && haveurgent && haveurgentcbs) + if (data_race(timer_pending(&rtpcp->lazy_timer))) + havependtimer = true; + if (havecbs && haveurgent && haveurgentcbs && havependtimer) break; } - pr_info("%s: %s(%d) since %lu g:%lu i:%lu %c%c%c%c l:%lu %s\n", + pr_info("%s: %s(%d) since %lu g:%lu i:%lu %c%c%c%c%c l:%lu %s\n", rtp->kname, tasks_gp_state_getname(rtp), data_race(rtp->gp_state), jiffies - data_race(rtp->gp_jiffies), @@ -746,6 +749,7 @@ static void show_rcu_tasks_generic_gp_kthread(struct rcu_tasks *rtp, char *s) ".C"[havecbs], ".u"[haveurgent], ".U"[haveurgentcbs], + ".P"[havependtimer], rtp->lazy_jiffies, s); } -- 2.17.1
